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Rethinking disomy: Autosomal expression bias.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 6 Apr 2026
Bogunovic Dusan
Abstract excerpt
Humans are disomic. At birth, all nucleated cells in the body have the same genetic material, composed of 22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes. Half the chromosomes are maternal, and half are paternal. It is thought that the two copies of autosomal genes are equally transcribed and translated in a given cell. This notion, based on Mendelian genetics, has guided the identification of genetic...
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